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productivity in the long run, at the cost of persistent unemployment, whereas a pro-stabilisation government sets a lenient default … screening mechanism then be applied to deter those most likely to default from seeking such financial assistance? The answer … information and a screening contract. The sector adversely affected in a pandemic can apply for government loans to reopen later …
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We study the existence of a profitable unemployment insurance market in a dynamic economy with adverse selection … job losses matters. In contrast to conventional wisdom, we find that private unemployment insurance in the US can be … profitable for a relatively short exclusion length of one year. To stimulate the emergence of a private unemployment insurance …
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When designing schemes to help SMEs survive crises, the government typically faces asymmetric information, so that it cannot target the SMEs most worth saving. We show that the government can exploit the information in the borrower loan demand to improve policy targets compared with existing...
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productivity in the long run, but the economy suffers persistent unemployment in the near term. However, a pro stabilisation … fail to repay. In this paper we asked whether, and to what extent, it may be beneficial to apply a screening mechanism to … purpose, we develop a two-sector infinite horizon model featuring oligopolistic small businesses and a screening contract in …
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productivity in the long run, but the economy suffers persistent unemployment in the near term. However, a pro … fail to repay. In this paper we asked whether, and to what extent, it may be beneficial to apply a screening mechanism to … purpose, we develop a two-sector infinite horizon model featuring oligopolistic small businesses and a screening contract in …
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Telemonitoring devices can be used to screen consumers' characteristics and mitigate information asymmetries that lead to adverse selection in insurance markets. However, some consumers value their privacy and dislike sharing private information with insurers. In the second-best efficient...
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We take a dynamic perspective on insurance markets under adverseselection and study a generalized Rothschildand Stiglitz model where agents may differ with respect to theaccidental probability and their expenditure levels incase an accident occurs. We investigate the nature of dynamicinsurance...
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Transparency has become a catchword and in the economic-political debate is often seen as a universal remedy for all sorts of problems. In this paper, we analyze and discuss the meaning and use of the concept of transparency in economic research. We look for common denominators across different...
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We study how adverse selection distorts equilibrium investment allocations in a Walrasian credit market with two-sided heterogeneity. Representative investor and partial equilibrium economies are special cases where investment allocations are distorted above perfect information allocations. By...
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